Right Linda. Also the longer review in French: http://rh19.revues.org/document1039.html Revue d'Histoire du XIX me Century. Robert brings a lot of alsace Lorraine material to our attention. Thanks always to him. Gloria in Japan On 3 17, 2008, at 12:32 PM, Linda H. Gutierrez wrote: > Hi Gloria, > > The price is quite high - too bad! and believe it or not (not sure if > you noticed when you Googled), the Amazon price is the lowest! > > Unfortunately, all of the hits were for either purchasing the book or > a journal article. There was one link with a moderately long review > by Janet Hartley. > > It does sound very interesting and I also thank Robert Behra for > bringing the book to our attention. > > For now I have added it to my Amazon wish list! > > Linda > in Costa Rica > Monroe County, NY Records and Family Genealogy > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~monroenys/ > Monroe County, NY History > http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~monroenys/ > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Gloria Ishida > To: alsace-lorraine@rootsweb.com > Sent: 16 March, 2008 8:27 PM > Subject: Re: [A-L] A couple of books of potential interest > > > Thanks for this very interesting reference. If one goes to google > books, type in the title, there are a lot more references, book > reviews,etc. about the book. these are helpful if one cannot buy (75 > dollars at amazon) or access the book in a library. > > I have Lorraine ancestors who were in the military (non-elit). > > Gloria Ishida > On 3 17, 2008, at 3:10 AM, RobtBehra@aol.com wrote: > >> I recently came across a couple of books at work (the Marriott >> Library, >> University of Utah) that I thought might be of interest to some on the >> list. >> Since neither is brand new, you may already have come across them >> yourselves. I >> haven't had time to read them, so I can't give you all that much >> information >> about them. >> >> Soldier and peasant in French popular culture, 1766-1870, by David M. >> Hopkin >> (Woodbridge, Suffolk, England : The Royal Historical Society, The >> Boydell >> Press, 2003) >> >>> From the author's introduction: "... this book is not primarily >>> concerned >> with the French army. Rather it is a study of popular mentalities >> through one >> particular facet, attitudes to the military. I am less concerned >> with the >> army's ability to fill its ranks than with what the peasant thought >> about his >> son becoming a soldier. ... I start in 1766, the year which witnessed >> the 'r >> éunion' of Lorraine with France. Lorraine, together with the >> contiguous >> provinces of Alsace, Champagne and Franche-Comté, was the central >> location for my >> research." > -- > Resources for Alsace-Lorraine list members: > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~valorie/Alsace-Lorraine-L.htm > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ALSACE-LORRAINE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >